Job 28:3
He has established a time for darkness, and he has settled on an end for all things, as well as for the stone that is in the gloom and shadow of death.
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2Iron is taken from the earth, and ore, unbound by heat, is turned into brass.
Cross References
Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death obscure it, let a fog overtake it, and let it be enveloped in bitterness.
Job 12:22He reveals the depths of the darkness, and he brings the shadow of death into the light.
Proverbs 2:4if you will seek her like money, and dig for her as if for treasure,
Habakkuk 2:13Are not these things before the Lord of hosts? For the people will labor amid a great fire, and the nations will labor in emptiness, and they will fail.
Luke 16:8And the lord praised the iniquitous steward, in that he had acted prudently. For the sons of this age are more prudent with their generation than are the sons of light.
Matthew Henry on Job 28:2-12
Extent of Human Discoveries. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. 2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone. 3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. 4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men. 5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as… Read the whole commentary →